How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others

by Tim Irwin

Tim Irwin reveals that the methods used in most organizations to provide feedback to employees, such as performance appraisal or multi-rater feedback systems, tend to engage a natural “negativity bias.

How to Move Up, Win at Work and Succeed With Any Type of Boss

How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies

by Denise Lee Yohn

Brand and culture independently drive business. In Fusion, Denise Lee Yohn shows that when you fuse the two together and create an interdependent and mutually-reinforcing relationship between them, you create even more organizational power.

Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, and Command Attention

by Renee Grant-Williams

While everyone has a voice, not every voice is one that gets attention — a personal weakness often overlooked. The concept of “dressing for success” — creating the right appearance — is second nature by now. However, most people are unaware that their voices account for one-third of the total impression they make on others (the other factors are appearance and message). In this summary, Renee Grant-Williams, who has worked with U.S. senators, business executives and sales professionals, as well

Taking a Holistic Approach to Enterprise Health

by Alan P. Brache

Organizations are like humans. Each organ, muscle, bone, and nerve plays a unique part within the whole. A strong contribution from one component can’t make up for deficiencies in others, and understanding each component doesn’t explain the health of the whole person. Body functions are integrated and their interactions are as important as their individual roles. So are the different functions in an organization. This summary shows you how to take a holistic approach to organizational wellness b

How to Manage a Group of Professionals

by David H. Maister, Patrick J. McKenna

Managing people is difficult, particularly when you are tasked with leading a group of confident, intelligent professionals — often used to working with a certain amount of autonomy — to accomplish some task or essential goal. Group leaders must be skilled not only in management basics (delegation, decision-making, running meetings, and so forth), but also in the “softer” skills of inspirational leadership practices. Crammed with concrete advice and practical applications and examples, ...

James O'Toole shows that leadership based on integrity, honesty, and respect is the only way to gain the commitment and loyalty of your people and effect change. This is must reading for change agents.